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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 5, 1903. sibsi riitiox rates, invariably in advance. (By Mall.) Daily, Sunday Included, one year 18.00 Dally. Sunday included, six months.... 4.- Daily. uuoy included, three mcnlhi. . 2-3 - Daily. Suntl. Included, one month . --T3 Daily, without Sunday, one year n.0 Daily, withaut Sunday, six months.... 3.23 Daily, without gunilay, three months. . 1.73 Daily, without Sunday, oue montu.... .BO iunday. one year ft'eekly. one year (issued. Thursday)... 1.30 Sunday and weekly, one year. 3-6u BV CARRIEK. Daily. Sunday lr.::uded. one year.:.... 00 Daily. Sunday included, one month J HOW TO REMIT Send postoltlce money order, express order or personal check oo rour local bank. Stamps, coin or currency ire at the sender's risk Give potoHlce ao iress In full. Including county and state , . rOSTAGH KATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. 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Wheatloy; Oakland News Stand; B E. Amos, manager Ove wagons (inldfleld, Nev. Louie Follin; C E. Htinter Eureka, Cnl. Ci.l-Chronlcle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND, SUNDAY, JAN . 196. FULTON AND HENEY. Senator Fulton has made spirited reply to accusations by Mr. Francis J. Heney. Nor is it merely a reply; it is a challenge. Doubtless tt would be more proper to call Mr. Heney's state ments "Insinuations," as Mr. Fulton calls them, than accusations. Mr. Heney, we think, has said nothing more direct than that he could show, i and would show, at the proper time, that Senator Fulton had been a friend of wrongdoers, nnd that he had in his possesison evidence that proves that Fulton had been guilty of' corrupt acts. This, though indefinite, is suf ficiently direct to engage Mr. Fulton's attention; and his open letter to Mr. Heney is a proper reply. Now what Is there, what can there be, to justify Mr. Heney's attainder of Mr. Fulton? We know of the Mitch ell letter to George C. Brownell and of Mr. Fulton's concurrence In it. The letter was written In January. 1904. Brownell wanted to be United States District Attorney. John H. Hall at that time held the office, and wished to retain It. But Mitchell and Fulton were both under great obliga tions to Brownell for political services, and, as Mitchell stated in his letter, were anxious to serve Brownell. Yet they were not unfriendly to Hall. Brownell had. however, fallen into the meshes of the Heney dragnet, and it would not do to press him for the ap pointment. The interpretation that has been given to the Mitchell-Fulton letter to Ermvnell is that Brownell was advised to withdraw his own claims to the office, and that his "In terests" were to be "protected" by re appointment of Hall. Of the genu ineness of the letter there is no doubt. Jt is in Mr. Mitchell's well-known style throughout, and Mr. Fulton's full concurrence in It is signed in his own hand. But what does the letter mean? That Mr. Fulton was advising Mr. Brownell to press his own claims tio further, but consent to' the ap pointment of Mr. Hall, and the latter would shield Mr. Brownell from prosecution? This interpretation is Indignantly denied by Mr. Fulton and Mr. Hall. Whether Mr. Brownell' has said anything we are not advised. But did Heney get the letter from Brownell? Or is It a copy furnished from Mitchell's letter book?" Mr. Fulton admits the authenticity of the letter, but positively denies that It is subject to the interpretation that Heney has given it, or that there is anything In the letter, or in his ap proval of it, that could compromise himself. So far ae The Oregonian knows, this is the issue between Sen ator Fulton and Mr. Heney. If there is anything else the public would like to see the evidence. It seems to The Oregonian that it is Incumbent on Mr. Heney to answer Mr. Fulton's open challenge and de fiance. Inferences may be drawn from the Mitchell-Fulton letter to Brownell, but inferences, in doubtful and disputed cases, are dangerous. Mr. Fulton is as well entitled to his own explanation of this Incident as Mr. Heney is to his inferences from it; nay. better, for Mr. Fulton knows about It what Mr. Heney cannot. It Is desirable In the first place to have a distinct statement from Mr. Heney of the charge or charges implied in his "insinuatitsns," as Mr. Fulton calls them, and then to have Mr. Fulton's answer to them. Has a wrong con struction been placed .upon this letter by Mr. Heney? Or Is the construc tion placed upon it by publications which have been favored with copies of it. that of Mr. Heney or of oth ers? Has Mr: Heney other matter with which to support this construc tion? Has he other proofs? We know of no method by which these statements can be brought out except the uso of the press. Mr. Fulton is a Senator of Oregon, and probably will bo a yandidale for re-election. He Is ( right in his challenge to Mr. Heney I that "you publicly and specifically set J forth the grounds on which you base .luc i iiai ge ui vr . ijift-uui.if) -i .- part." Shall we hear from Mr. Keney? '. ' . AN EDIFYING FICTION. The howlingest "ululation" we have heard comes from the Chicago Inter Ocean. This is a Republican ' paper, devoted heart and soul to "the inter ests." It tells us that it gets stacks of letters from Republicans of the Mid dle West, who declare, one and all, that "if the rural voters can't get a candidate who will continue Roose velt's policy, they will vr!te for W. J. Bryan." The Inter Ocean remarks further that "from the number of these letters ana the extent or terri tory from which they come, the infer ence seems safe that they represnt about 15 or 20 pr cent of those in the Middle West who voted for Mr. Roose velt in 1904." Thfs unhappy Journal declares that what these people mean by "Roosevelt's policy," continuation of which they so ardently desire, is "the' policy of agitation which brought on the panic." This truly edifying Action that .rob bery, rebates, excessive capitalization, looting of banks and trust funds, and fre.nzied finance generally, are natural conditions of business that ought not to be disturbed, has a pretty firm hold in certain quarters even yet. evidently. He who disturbs this beautiful system, moreover, i a panic-maker and mis cellaneous malefactor. And. the peo pie who stand by him against the trusts and brigands and want his pol icy eonttrfued "have been led far astray." They are honest, no doubt, but "misguided." But the situation11 is not without hope. A "campaign of education" is urged against those who have misled the people to take up arms against their benefactors of the plunderbund. Some seem to think it hopeful. There has not been much "panic" except in the strongholds of frenzied finance and high plunder. But there was sure to be a panic in these pur lieus when the lid was pulled oft and the public could see what was going on underneath. I); was the sort of panic you discover when you kick over a fungus and note the scare and scurry of the vile little population under it It may, however, be set down as very certain that Bryan will be elected If the reactionary forces of the Re publican party should get control and try to put things back to where they 'were before Roosevelt began to shake the secrets out of organized plunder and stop its work. MOTHERS TO THE RESCUE. It seems that some of the mothers of New York City have at last awak ened to a sense of duty to their youns; daughters. According to a late dis patch, they have declared a war of extermination against the Greek' let ter societies that barnacle the private and preparatory schools of that city. From the account given of the initia tion ceremonies in a local organiza tion known as the "Sigma Gamma Society," which aroused these moth ers to action, it is clear that this in terference is not only proper, but that it has been long overdue. It is' high time, indeed, that sensi ble, judicious mothers came to the res cue of their young daughters. While, perhaps, the majority 'of girls who ara Initiated into these premature Greek letter societies are able to stand the "tests" applied to candidates without physical collapse, the fact remains that such organizations are worse than useless: that they are gravely perni cious, in that they inculcate snobbish ness: create an undue feeling of self importance, involve expense that not infrequently works hardship upon par ents,, and especially upon mothers, take young girls out of evenings anat tended except by each other (which, in the estimation of the late Judge Frazer, is worse than no attendance at all), and conduce to the idea that they are able to dispense with the over sight of their elders at a period in life when such oversight is most needed. Mrs. Barbauld's story of "Young Jehu," though not exactly a classic, might well be added to what is called "first-year English" in our High Schools. It may, indeed, be commend ed to the perusal of thoughtless par ents who have in mistaken kindness allowed their sons and daughters to take whip and rein from duly compe tent hands and drive at their own paco in the realm of inexperience. The simple story will be found in any col lection of Mrs. Barbauld's poems and concludes with the following stanza: And many a bill for damage done His father had to pay. Take warning, youthful drivers all. From Jehu's first essay. MR. HARRIMAX AGAIN. The power to create and destroy railroad facilities in this part of the world lies absolutely in Mr. Harrl man's hands. With this power goes a similar control of the fortunes, and, indirectly, of the lives of our popula tion. His authority in all essential particulars surpasses that of any Eu ropean sovereign over his subjects, and, like the most abject servants of a feudal monarch, the people of Ore gon are compelled to approach Mr. Harrlman in humble submission and beg of him that he will graciously save them from commercial ruin. If their prayers were granted the case would not be without its ftmso lations. It Is bad enough to crawl at the feet of power and beg for favors even when they are finally vouch safed; but to crawl and beg and re ceive in return nothing but scornful neglect goes to the heart (A the most patient victim of Mr. Harriman's au tocracy. What is the remedy for this system atic neglect of the interests of Oregon by our railroad autocrat? Prayers have been tried ad nauseum, and they have been useless. Is there anything besides prayers which the outraged commercial interests of the state can now resort to? Can Mr. Harrimair be forced to fulfill those duties which he has driven every other man from per forming and which he refuses to per form himself? Hi 'attitude is pre cisely that of the traditional dog In the manger. He has. by fraud and force, driven every competitor from the railroad business In this state. The whole system of our transportation Is his. Having done that, he now de clines to make those Improvements without which the system is compara tively useless. He hinders the devel opment of the state, prevents the growth of population and virtually forbids the cultivation of great areas of fertile land. What should be done with a man who thus stifles the life of a whole state? Is there a limit be yond which the abuse of power can not be tolerated? When a man makes such use as Mr: Harrlman does of his authority over the lives and fortunes of his fellow-men, has not the time arrived for tha authority to be taken from him? How long will the people of Oregon bend the knee in humble supplication to Overlord Harrlman before they discover that in some cases compulsory measures far exceed the efficacy of prayers? Wrhen a great public servant utterly neglects his du ties, common justice and common sense alike require that he should be replaced by . somebody whose con science is less deadened to the sense of obligation. Can Mr. Harrlman be deposed, or is he not only an absolute monarch, but also a perpetual one? A COMMON MISTAKE IN LITERATURE. When among the new books for the holidays publication of the "Letters of Dr. John Brown" was announced, the thousands of readers who had enjoyed the little story of "Rob and his Friends" prepared for a literary feast, quaint, piquant and delightful. Edit ed by his son and dedicated to his grandchildren, it must be said, how ever, that these letters of Dr. Browtl are of stnall value to the wider circle of readers to which they have been given. Certainly the volume adds nothing to the literary fame of the writer, though perhaps- they mirror anew the sterling virtues which he in herited from his sturdy Scotch an cestry. Dr. Brown's place in litera ture is an honorable if not an espe cially prominent one. The sketch, "Rob and His Friends," gives a taste of his quality. It has been accorded a place among the "little prose mas terpieces" by some of the best judges of English literature and against this classification no dissenting voice has been raised. The story, in the sim plicity of its recital and in its por trayal of the rugged, yet sublime vir tues of faithfulness, endurance, seren ity and self-conquest, appeals at once to the more steadfast and more gentle elements of human character, and upon this basis it is read and re-read by thoughtful, sympathetic men and women the world over. It is this class of readers who will scan with disappointment the letters of Dr. Brown, which are now pub lished, with regret that they had not been edited by some hand that would have eliminated much that is trivial and without reason for seeking pub licity and much that bears the stamp of an intolerant ancestry of Scotch Presbyterian preachers, and of the en-, vironment In which' the writer was born, lived, worker"., judged and died. Whlfe It may be true, as Dr. Brown says, for example, that "George Eliot had fully as much talent as genius," he ignores the very essence of her genius jvhen he says that "her views of life, of God, of all that is deepest and truest in man, are low, miserable and hopeless, and she seems always wisning to drag her readers down to her own level." Every sympathetic reader, who followed Tom -and Maggie Tulliver through life and down to death, will dissent from this opinion and see In It only .the dogmatism of self-righteous assumption. And when he further taxes George Eliot with a "taint of sensuality, or rather of sexu ality"; when he adds to this an ar raignment of "nastiness" and of "un womanly knowledge that she Is always hinting at," it Is necessary to re-read "Rob and His Friends" in order to forgive the author of this ungenerous criticism. We cafti afford to smile Indulgently when Dr. Brown calls Longfellow a "male Mrs. Hemans." and indeed to forgive him, since at 70 years of age he saluted Robert Louis Stevenson as a "true genius, new liquor fresh and aromatic." The task of editing and giving to the public the private correspondence to which a name prominent in litera ture Is attached is not an easy one. Louise M. Alcott, not having time or strength to devote to the work of seg regating and editing a Journal tht was kept by her mother for ' many years, caused the entire manuscript to be burned. Mrs, Alcott was a woman of rare insight into the miracle of hu man life as it went on about her in the time of Emerson and Thoreau and others of a transition era in our his tory. Her comments upon men and affairs were copious and sometimes caustic, and her daughter declined to risk the winnowing of the wheat from the chaff of this volume of opinion to any other hand than her own. The wisdom of this decision is unques tioned, though without doubt much that was of value In relation to the Inner history of the movements of a momentous tlfie was thereby lost. Many persons have shared the re gret that the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle found their way into print. Even some of the letters of Queen Victoria, carefully edited as they were, would better have been consigned to the names than to the printing press, since, while they served their purpose well as family letters, they belittle in a way the sagacity, otherwise unim peached, of their royal author. Byron nowhere else appears so weak as In a volume of private letters that was given to the public after his death. It is not surprising that Dr. John Brown does not appear to advantage in this volume of letters that his fam ily has given to the world. The irre sistible conclusion, after reading them, is thathis literary record and his record as a man of sound judg ment and human sympathies has not been heightened or brightened by the publication of his private correspondence THE DICNTV OF A COfRT. The Providence (R. I.) Journal has had the misfortune to come under the displeasure of a Supreme Court that is very exacting In its require ments as to newspaper accuracy, and that has novel ideas as to the exercise of the power to punish for contempt. It teems that the Journal published In Its news columns a report ot" a Su preme Court decision, but an edi'orial writer in commenting upon the de cision misunderstood its effect and made an erroneous statement. For this error the paper was cited for contempt, and after hearing, the court found the defendant guilty and de creed that the paper should publish in full In its editorial columns thy de cision In the contempt case and pay the costs. The Journal, being up against a tribunal from which there Is no appeal, obeyed the order. The Springfield Republican, pub lished but a few miles from the bor ders of the jurisdiction of the Rhode Island court, takes occasion to express Its opinion of this proceeding, and says that the entire performance im- presses one as derogatory to that dig nity fvhieh the court labored to uphold.- The court did not Increase the respect in which it should b-i held, says the Republican, since It took an unreasonable view-of the standard of newspaper accuracy and, on the whole, displayed a fussiness over small things that never characterizes large minds. It was apparently a clear case of unintentional error and was not made for the purpose of as sailing the court. Since the , Republican has a large circulation in Rhode Island, it Is ap parently In danger of being called to account tjor Its estimate of the mag nitude of the minds of the judges who rcnded the decision In the contempt case. Whether the Republican has been inaccurate in Its estimate is .lot likely to be of material consequence, for, beyond doubt, the Rhode Island court will differ greatly in its estimate of its own mental capacity, and since Its opinion, in a contempt case, must prevail, it is a foregone judicial con clusion that the Republican is in er ror. And that paper can scarcely ay, as the Providence Journal did, that It meant no contempt, for the Republi can openly, declares Its lack of respect for the tribunal over the border. What the Republican insists is that the right to err should be conceded to a newspaper, which publishes an im mense amount of matter every d;w, much of which is prepared In haste. The remark might very appropriately have been made that if the Rhode Is land judges were compelled to writ their decisions as promptly and quick ly as the articles for a newspaper ara prepared, the judicial error would 0t the rule rather than the exception. And the opinions would not carry n.mr the weight of the average editorial in the Providence Journal. The Judged should have remembered that courts sometimes make mistakes, even when live of them sit in consultation ovei a question for weeks. Occasionally t.toy acknowledge their errors. They .should have, remembered, also, that even whet) a court has rendered a decision ! correct in itself, it is sometimes diffi cult for the reader to determine ex actly what the court niftint. These considerations warrant the assertion that the Rhode Island court shfiuld have displayed somg charity toward the Providence Journal. To err is hu man, and the Rhode Island court 13 not divine, whatever its opinion may be in that respect.' ' THE BATTLE OF NKW ORLEANS. In the opinion of the late Mrs. Mary Ramsey Wood the greatest and best among the Presidents of the United States was Andrew Jackson. Her opinion, cherished through so many years, and vicissitudes from the far-off time of her girlhood when she know Jackson and dunced with him, is in teresting because it brings home to us a feeling which was then almost uni versal throughout the West. Jack son's strong and primitive nature was entirely harmonious with the char acter and habits of the men of the Mississippi Valley, where he first emerged into public life and won his first victories in war and peace. What passed for peace in those days in Ten nessee and Missouri would scarcely receive the name now Early West ern life must have been a more or less continuous brawl. Jackson himself was suffering from a wound inflicted in a tavern scuffle when he set out to avenge the massacre afc Fort Meigs in 1813. One element of his popularity, in truth, was his ability to hold hi3 own, and more, too. In this sort of ad ventures. He was ignorant of litera ture and knew precious little law; but he could drink, bet on horse races and make rattling speeches, while no nan In Tennessee was readier with his gun. These charms endeared him to the heart of the West, which in that early day was wild if not woolly. Nlcolal and Hay, in their life of Lincoln, make interesting allusions to the habits of the. early pioneers In the Mississippi Valley. In their estima tion we permit ourselves many self deceptions concerning the freedom and pleasures which they enjoyed. According to these competent author ities, existence in the backwoods of Tennessee, Illinois and Kentucky was one continuous round of hardship, varied by bitter feuds, cruel fights and the spiritual excitements of camp meetings. Such a life was well enough for the men. Those who .were not killed in their youth grew up into a Bold and hardy manhood; but for the women it was almost unmitigated misery. Poetry and fiction now spread allurements over those days of pi oneering hardship which would be extremely surprising to the pioneers themselves were they not all dead and gone. Mrs. Wood was perhaps the last survivor of a generation whose pleasures were few and rough and whose struggles were bitter almost be yond human endurance. In his char acter Jackson combined the foolhardy, adventurous, devil-may-care traits of his neighbors; but he possessed- in ad dition a determined resolution, an ability to conceive and execute far sighted policies and a broad patriotism which raised him far above the or dinary hunting, drinking, racing, fight ing backwoodsman. Patriotism was not especially lively in the West during the years between the death of Washington and the Bat tle of New Orleans. Jefferson had ac quired the mouths of the Mississippi in 1803, but nobody east of the Alle ghenles appreciated the value of his purchase. The settlements in the West were cut off from the Atlantic by a range of mountains difficult to cross. To be sure the two great high ways, down the Ohio, through the Cumberland Gap, and up the Lakes, were well traveled by that time, but upon the whole the East knew little about the West and cared less. The settlements were' mainly left to solve their own problems as they might, and the solution which seemed most pop ular before the battle of New Orleans was to found a 'separate empire which should seek its outlet to Europe by way of the Mississippi. The economic forces yhich exert such a measureless influence upon the" destinies of na tions were at that time all working to sever the West from the United States. It was the splendid historic fortune of Jackson to achieve a victory at New Orleans which created the senti ment of nationality In Tennessee and the other Western settlements and forced the construction of those great Internal improvements that finally sealed the Mississippi Valley to the Union. Jackson's first expedition to New Orleans, in 1813, was furiously pop ular all down the Mississippi. The Congress then in session, an imbecile body, was feebly conscious that the British would probably attack New Orleans, since it could be reached by sea and we had no navy; Jackson's offer to raise 2500 men and proceed to the defense of the city was there fore accepted, but scarcely had he reached the mouth of the great river with his gallant Tennesseeans when an order arrived from Washington to disband his men without pay or trans portation home and give up the defense-of Jefferson's imperial purchase. The order was scandalous. In sheer iniquity and folly it almost equaled some of the deeds of a modern Con-? gress under trust guidance. But, scandalous as the, order was, it gave Jackson an opportunity, which he was quick to seize. Instead of turning loose the Tennessee boys to make their way through the wilderness without food or money, he hired transportation .at his own cost and marched them home in glory. At the same time he himself began that march ' which ended in the TViIte House. Of course, Jackson was now the hero of the .West. He. had stood by his men with grand fidelity and they repaid him with loyal worship. When, in the Spring of 1814, the British un der Pakenham actually threatened New Orleans. Congress could not do otherwise than appoint Jackson Major-General for the Southwest, and, with his old comrades flocklng'to his standard, he returned to the scene of action. The Battle ot New Orleans, one of those decisive actions which determine the destinies of nations, took place on January 8, 1815. Pak enham had 10,000 veterans, some of whom had fought against Napoleon on the fields of Europe. Jackson had 2000 pioneers from Tennessee and Kentucky, who knew nothing of for mal warfare, but who understood well how' to shoot straight and kill an en emy without exposing themselves to his fire. Every sharpshooter made sure of at least one British soldier, and some of two. Pakenham lost 2600 men and the mo.uth of the Mis sissippi was forever secured to the United States. Jackson became the leading figure in American politics from the day of his victory and re tained his prestige almost undimin ished until the day of his death. One of the most significant figures In our history, his career marks the first gen uine triumph of democratic ideas.' Af ter his retirement they lay in abey ance until Mr. Roosevelt brought them again to the front and made them fruitful in the politics of our own time. The deficit of the Postal Depart ment of the Government for the last fiscal year, as sho -n in the annual report of the Postmaster-General, was over $6,500,000. This is a very large sum, but its great weight is lightened somewhat by comparison. Fifty years ago the deficit was 43 per cent of the receipts' of the department; ten years ago it haB dropped to 13 per cent; In 1906 It was but slightly in excess of 6 per cent, while in the year covered by the last report it was a little over 3 1 per cent. A great burden borne by the department is the free carry ing of the mail matter of the various branches of the Government, The matter thus carried last year amount ed to .nearly 30,000.000 pounds. Proper credit for the transportation of this, enormous bulk at the printed matter rato would have decreased the deilcit of the department 42,260,000. ( Of course Mr. Gus Lowlt has gone to stay. The mistake made was by the District Attorney in letting him go away from Portland at all. But Lowlt had a most powerfully persuasive pleader In his attorney, Mr. Nate Si mon, who promised to produce him when wanted. Now Mr. Lowlt refuses to make Mr. Simon's word good, which is most unkind and is besides something that that astute attorney never could have dreamed would happen. We hope, trust and even ven ture to think that the Simon fee will not be any smaller on account of the Lowit delinquency. But no doubt we shall be able to trace Lowlt's where abouts -through reports of. a large overdraft in some Middle Western or other, bad-;. Staid old Philadelphia has devel oped a sensation. James W. Paul, Jr., of that city, recently gave a tlOO, 000 ball to mark the coming out of his daughter. It has aroused a storm of public, criticism chiefly because It was' held at a time of .depression and is compared with Mrs. Bradley Mar tin's fancy dress ball in 1893 following closely on the heels of the panic. Mr. Paul's party was stamped with all the vulgarity attaching to reckless throw ing about of money. .Among the bar baric features was the letting loose of 500 gorgeous- butterflies imported from tropical, countries, which flut tered about the ballroom for a while and then fell beneath the feet of the dancers. Should Taft be the candidate, he need not worry over expenses,, though he has lived too lopg on a Government salary to have any money of his .own. His half-brother, Charles . P. Taft, is reliably reported to be willing to make all the necessary contributions, so that William H. . may enter the high office Indebted to no one. Charles is very rich on his own account, while his wife, only daughter of the late David Linton, inherited millions. We are disposed to think, from 'Mr. Louis J. Wilde's fiery contributiom the press, that . there are very few things in 7 ortland really calculated to suit him. He must admit, however, that we have an occasional banker who has large and generous views as to his own capacity for absorbing wholesale quantities of telephone bonds. Somebody says that Frank Davey is "giving sage advice." He ., Is just the man to do it, because he Is sage himself, and Is getting new inspira tion from the sagebrush country. , What will be done with Orchard? They wouldn't believe Orchard's testi mony against Haywood and Pettibone. Why should they believe Orchard's testimony against himself? When in good faith men are trying i to rehabilitate a bank, is any good purpose served by rushing into print with personal quarrels? It seems that the Title' Guarantee & Trust Company never had any cap ital stock except Its debt to Ladd & Tilton. Two continents, it seems, are re quired for an adequate field of opera tions to wash the dirty Thaw linen. SILHOUETTES By Arthur A. Grtfse. I really wonder If Louis J. Wilde feels as bady as he writes? Some scientific sharp has discovered that human beings evolve from potato bugs. Most of us will retain the char acteristics of jellyfish, however. e The fellow who takes an occasional "smile" Is In a fair way to acquire a grin that won't come off. w Few people who make good excuses make good friends. I desire at this time to call your at tention in terms ot almost ecstatic 'ad miration to George L. Baker's newest fancy waistcoat. It makes Solomon look as if he had got his raiment at a fire sale. ' It is announced that Nat Goodwin Is writing his memoirs for an Eastern pub lishing house. Presumably hand illu mined asbestos will be used for binding. Portland girls should preflt by the ex amples of Anna Gould and Alice Thaw and reform their disgraceful habit of marrying out-of-town men. DeBs Said the little gray owl. With an ominous scowl. To his mate on the limb by his side: "If that stork comes around. Tell him I can be found In the tree where the fighters abide; That I'm tolerably wise. And though not quite his size, I will beat him to death in one round." The two .fist flghti that occurreTT in local banks on Friday emphasize the necessity of a larger moral squad and an earlier Closing hour for such resorts. -A notoriety-seeking college president declares that men school teachers are "sissies." That man never heard Hugh Herdman express himself on the football field when the game wasn't going to suit him. Kite-flying is taken up down EBst as a cure for nerves. In the future when you're told to "fly your kite" you will understand that you're getting on to some one's nerves. We Portlanders have another advan tage over Nevada: We don't have to main tain a home for Indigent umbrella dealers. One result of a possible war between this country and Japan would be a re plenished supply of colonels. A man named E. Hester Gule is cred ited by the dispatches as being a "dan gerous" candidate for Mayor of Seattle. Can you Imagine a man named E. Heater Guie being dangerous? O, feathers! The man with a conscience is more to be trusted than the man with a surety; A Sentiment for Today. A song. . v A prayer, A Joy, A care. Come laughter. Come grief. Come pain: Be strong " In faith. For 110116 Still saith: "Comes sunshine" After rain. When a man registers a vow of eternal affection for another man's wife through the mails he should always register the letter. Friendly tlpv for Governor HugheB. of New York No man who parted his beard in the middle has ever been President of the United States. v Women's conversations are usually light because they are. so busy talking they haven't time to weigh their thoughts. The moral pointed by the acquittal of Pettibone is: "Come west, young man, and become a dynamiter." Fut urr Battleahfps and Gasn. Scientific American. The battleship of the future will be of great size; displacement will not be less than 20,000 tons; and this will in crease so rapidly thax a 30.000-ton ship will probably be afloat before the close of the next decade. The main arma ment will consist exclusively of heavy guns of not less than 12 Inches caliber, and unless the difficulty of erosion can be overcome the 12-inch will give place to a 13-inch and possibly to a 14-inch piece. Future engagements will be fought at an extreme range, the-extent of which will be limited only by the abil ity of the fire control officer to see the fall of the shots. The determination of the range at which an engagement shall be fought will lie with the fleet -which possesses the faster speed. Seeln' Thinzs. Eugene Field, t ain't afeared nv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms', or mice. An' things 'at girls are ekeered uv I think are nice. I'm pretty brave, I guess; an' yet I hate to ge to bed. Por, when I'm tut-ked up warm and snug, an when my prayers are Mid, Motjicr telle me "Happy dreame," an' takes away the lie-ht. An' leaves me lyln' all alone an' seein" things at night! Sometimes they're in the corner, sometime they're by the door, Sometimes they're all a-standin' In the mid dle uv the floor; Sometimes they're a-sittin' down, sometimes they're walkin' around So aoftly .and so creepy-like they never make a sound! Sometimes they're aa black as ink. an' other time they're white But the color ain't no difference when you ee things at night! ' Once, when I had licked a feller 'at had just moved on our street. An' fafprr sent me up to bed without a bite to eat, I woke up In the 'dark, an saw things' b tan din' in a row A'lookln' at me cross-eyed, an' plntin' at me so! Oh, "my! I wuz so ekeered that time I never alep a mite It's almcet alius when I'm bad I ee-things at night. Lucky thing I ain't a girl, or I'd Ae skeered to death! Bein I'm a boy, I duck my head an' hold my breath: An' I am. oh! so sorry I'm naughty boy, an' then 1 promae to be better, an' I eay my prayers again! Gran'ma tells me that's the only way to make It right When a feller has been wicked and sees things at night. An' so. when other naughty boys would coax me into sin, I try to gquEh the Tempter's voice 'at urges me within; An' when they's pie for supper. r cakes 'at'a big an nice, I want to but I do not pass my .plate fr them things twice! No; ruther 'at starvation wipe me slow'y out o' sight Than I trhould keep a-Hvin' on an' seela' things at night. STANDARD VERSE Kubla Knan. In Xanadue did. Kubla Khan A statety pleasure-dome decree Where Alph. the sacred river, ran. Through caravana measureless to man, Down tea sunless sea.-- So twice five miles of fertile ground. With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens, bright with sinuous rills. Where blossomed many an Incense bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as tha hills. Infolding sunny spotej of greenery. But O. that deep romantic chasm, which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman walling for her demon lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething. Ae if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced. Amid whose swift, half-Intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebound- , ing hail. Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at onca and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five mile, meandering with a mazy motion, Through wood and dale, the sacred river ran Then reached the caverns measureless to man. And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean. And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war. The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves; It was a miracle of rare device A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer , In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid. And on her dulcimer -she played. Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song. To such a deep delight 'twould win me That, with music loud and long. I would build that dome In air That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there. And all should cry. Beware! beware! His flashing eyes, fcis floating I.air! Weave a circle ronnd him thrice. And close your eyes with holdy dread. For he on honey-dew hath fed. And drunk the milk of Paradise. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Time. Gather ye rosebuds as ye may. Old time is still a flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven' the eun, The higher he's a getting; The sooner will his race be run. And nearer he's to setting. The age is best which ttf the first. When youth and blood are warmer: But being spent, the worse and worst Time will succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, and while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime. You may forever tarry. ROBERT HERRICK. Tbe MIlkniHld. A milkmaid, who poised a full pail on her head. Thus mused on her prospects in life. It is said: "Let me see I should think that this milk will procure . One hundred good eggs, or fourscore, to be sure. "Well, then stop a bit it must not be forgotten. Some of these may be broken, and some may be rotten; But if twenty for accident should' be detached. It will leave just elxty sound eggs to be .hatched. "Well, sixty sound eggs no, sound chickens, I mean: Of these may die we'll suppose seven teen. Seventeen! Not so many say ten at the most, Which will leave fifty chickens to boll or to roast. "But then, there's the barley; how much will they need? Why, they take but one grain at a time when they feed So that's a mere trifle; now,' then, let us sec, At a fair market price how much money there'll be. "Six shillings a pair-five-four-three-and-elx, To prevent all mistakes, that low price I will fix; Now what will that make? Fifty chick ens. I said Fifty times three-and-sixpence I'll ask Brother Ned. "O, but stop three-and-sixpence m, pair I must sell 'em; Well, a pair is a couple now then, let us tell 'em; A couple in fifty will gfi (my poor brain!) Why, Just a ecore times, and five pair will remain. "Twenty-five pair of fowls now how tiresome it is That I can't reckon up so much money as this! Well; there's no use in trying, so let's give a guess I'll say twenty pounds, and it can't be no less. "Twenty pounds. I am certain, will buy me a cow, . Thirty geese, and two turkeys eight pigs and a sow; Now, if these turn out well, at the end of the year, ' I ' shall fill both my pockets with guineas, 'tis clear." Forgetting her burden; when this she had said. The maid superciliously tossed up her head; When, alas for her prospects! her milk pail descended. And so all her schemes for the future were ended. This moral, I think, may be safely at tached "Reckon not on your chickens before they are hatched." JEFFREYS TAYLOR. Bobby's View of It. - ' The baby's habit of pinching his own eyes with his pudgy little fists had just attracted Bobby's attention. "On, mafn-ma," he cried, "come quick! The baby's fighting with himself."